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Extra Extra: Leave the pepper spray at home when you fly
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Published Aug 22, 2023
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It’s Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the Britney Spears Broadway show will be closing next month after a short run.
After a costly investment, “Once Upon a One More Time” opened earlier this summer to mixed reviews and a struggle to capture the pop star’s loyal fans as audience members. Spears seems to have bigger fish to fry as she never showed much enthusiasm for promoting the show.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Two men who showed up to pick up a pizza order from a Brooklyn Papa John’s ended up holding the workers at gunpoint after being asked for identification to confirm the order. The men made away with $80 worth of food and drinks.
- The Knicks and the Toronto Raptors now have a rivalry beyond the court after the New York basketball team filed a lawsuit against the Raptors' new head coach and a former Knicks scouting employee claiming that they conspired to steal videos and other scouting secrets.
- Kai Cenat, the YouTuber who was recently charged with inciting a riot in Union Square, is just one influencer who makes bank doing live broadcasts of himself sleeping.
- An American Airlines flight to New York from Miami had to be diverted shortly after takeoff on Sunday because a can of pepper spray inadvertently went off in the cabin.
- We live in a city that truly has it all, including a Portuguese sardine can shop in Times Square that actually looks pretty cool.
- And as the city that has it all, we’ve earned New York the title of the most bougie state, surprisingly ahead of California.
- Luna is a 70-pound Labrador mix who is just way too big to live in a New Jersey condo under the board’s rules, despite her owners saying she is an emotional support dog. The case for her to remain is now going to the state’s Supreme Court.
- And finally, the hummingbird whisperer:
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